Saturday's Results: 8 weeks down, 8 more to go!

We had another exceptional day of banding with 176 new birds and 12 recaptures of 26 different species.  Some of the highlights of today included a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW (2nd of the fall), Eastern Wood-Pewee, Palm Warbler (of the yellow eastern race), and a Blue Grosbeak.

 

Today marked the halfway point of the 2012 fall banding season at KIBS.  Out of a total of 53 possible banding days, banding has occurred on 51 of them.  So far, we have banded 2124 birds and have had 283 recaptures of 58 different species.     



Eastern Wood-Pewee (hatch-year, sex unknown)



Blue Grosbeak (hatch-year, sex unknown: probable female)

 

NEW BIRDS

1 Eastern Wood-Pewee

1 "Traill's" Flycatcher

2 Eastern Phoebe

9 Red-eyed Vireo

2 House Wren

1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

66 Gray Catbird

1 Northern Mockingbird

2 Yellow Warbler

1 Cape May Warbler

1 Black-throated Blue Warbler

2 Prairie Warbler

6 Palm Warbler (5 Western, 1 Eastern)

4 American Redstart

1 Ovenbird

2 Northern Waterthrush

67 Common Yellowthroat

1 Clay-colored Sparrow

1 Northern Cardinal

1 Blue Grosbeak

2 Indigo Bunting

3 Painted Bunting

 

RECAPTURES

1 White-eyed Vireo

1 Carolina Wren

1 House Wren

2 Gray Catbird

2 Common Yellowthroat

1 Hooded Warbler

1 Eastern Towhee

1 Northern Cardinal

 

BANDING STATS

# of Birds Banded:  176

# of Recaptures:  10

# of Species:  26

Effort:  93.5 net-hours

Capture Rate:  202.1 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  17